The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-01 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-M O ORRW. ...... 15 minute.; atter 6 Evenilv. Patronized by the most distinguished Reformers. Now ready, Parts I. to IV., at 3s. each, the mall Edition ; and s. Gd. each, the splendid large Folio Editln, with thick Proof Plates, QAUNDERS' PORTRAITS AND ME ► MOIRS OF EMINENT POLITICAL REFOIIMERS. The Portraits by GEORGE HAYTER, Esq , A. S. L. ,&c. , raintt:r of Porn: its and History to her N.bjesty Quern Victoria; and other eminent Artists. Contents of the First Four Parts : rtt. Hon. ViscJunt e!bourne Rt. li, o. G. Byrcf, M.P. thorge Cult:, Esq., M.l'. J. A. MA-Amick, Eq. Chartes Buller, Esq., M.P. Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. Rt. lion. P. Thomson, M.P. Colonel l'errcnet Thompson Dr. Bo..vring J. T. Leader, Esq., M.P. Wyse, Esq. M.P. lit. Hon. Lord J. Russ;.ll, M.P. * Foli' Proofs of the Plates sold at 59. each, by all Printsellers. IMPORTANT WORK ON TUE CA NADAS. Now ;-catly, No. I, at Gl., Part 1., at witl► portrait of Pap!neatt. THE CIVIL WARS IN THE CANAI)AS, And a highly interested General Account of the Provinces, corn prising : I. Historical Sketch of the Progress of Settlement. 2. The Resources and Trade of the Country. 3. Description of the Country an:l Climate. 4. Social Condition of the People, Manners, Habits, Customs, Amusements, Songs, &c. 5. The state of Religion, Education, the Press, &c. 6. A Statistical Account of the Population. 7. Information fur Emigrants. 8. Biographical Notices of the Canadian Leaders, &c. Illustrated by Views, Maps, Plans, and Portraits of the Cana dian Leaders. London : J. Saun,!ev, Jun. 7, Dyer's Buildings, Holhoi a Bars. EDITED BY CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ. (" BOZ.") The MARCH NUiJBER, embellished with Two humourous Illustrations by" C EORGE CRUIK SHAN K, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. (Price Half-a-Crown), Contains, among other Interesting Articles, New Chapters of OLIVER TWIST, by the EDITOR, Illustrated by George Cruikshank. The Nurse's Story. By Thomas, Timon of Athens, (Shakepeare Ingoldsby. - Papers.) By Dr. Maginn. A Visit to Versailles in 1836. Monosan:a. Mr. Klimehun- By W. J. Thorns. , bruch. By J. Hamilton Rey- There's no Mistake in That ! By noble. Tristram Merry Thought. The Two Sisters. By Captain Martha Mites, who cared for Medwin. Herself. By H. 11011. Popular and National Poetry— Ode to Mr. Mut?hy. France, Berangcr. By Charles The Grand Juror. By the au- 1 Mackay. thor of " The Lollards." Shawn Gow, the Little Grey The Doek-yard Ghost. By Lieu- Man of the Fairies. By a tenant Johns. Member of the " Comet Club," The Poppy, from Upland. ' with an Illustration by George The Devil. By " The Invisible Cruikshank. Gentleman." Alliteration—Siege of Belgrade, A Chapter in Life. By W. Jerdan. Sze. &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 'I.. Orders received by all Booksellers. CHEAP EDITION of CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S POPULAR NOVELS, PUBLISHING MONTHLY, Each Work comlete in One Volume, price only Six Shillings ! Now ready, compete in One Volume, price 65., embellished with Eng-ravings, JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. Also just published, JACOB FAITHFUL. PETER SIMPLE. To be followed by THE KING'S OWN, I MIDSHIPMAN EASY, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. *,,* Orders received by all-Booksellers. LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA, CHINA, AUSTRALIA, &c. PARBURY'S ORIENTAL HERALD, No. 111., for MARCH, price 2s. 6d. The following Summary of the Contents of this Magazine will give as idea of its nature and use : Four Original and Select Papers on Indian and Colonial sub jects, by Miss Emma Roberts and others. The SYNOPSIS of INDIAN INTELLIGENCE comprises : —124 interesting Items from Calcutta; 41 from Madras ; 45 from Bombay ; 82 from Ceylon, Burmah, Singapore, Java, China, New South Wales, Sandwich Islands, Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena—in all 292 paragraphs. The ASIATIC REGISTER contains:-15 Governmennt No tifications of the Three Presidencies ; Three Courts Martial of ditto ; 432 appointments, &c., Civil, Military, Naval, Medical, and Ecclesiastical ; 114 Births ; 27 Marriages ; 84 Deaths ; 77 Mili tary Arrivals and Departures ; 103 Shipping Arrivals and Depar tures. Also numerous Appointments, &c., Births, Marriages, and Deaths, and Shipping News from all parts of New South Wales and the Cape. From Ceylon, Moulmein, Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Manilla, Java, Batavia, China, and the Mauritius. IMPORT ANT HOME INTELLIGENCE Containing Parliamentary Proceedings on India, &c., in brief ; The Queen's Levee ; 20 General Items of News; Asiatic Society ; 15 Home Appointments ; Army Items ; 209 Shipping ditto ' • births, Mar riages and Deaths ; Money Market and Commercial Intelligence— including all Eastern and Colonial Prices-Current. Parbury and Co., 8, Leadenhall-street. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits. QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HER TIMES. Illustrated by A SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS. Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Great Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries WalAngliam and S►nith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and most of Distinguished Persons of the Period. FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE REIGN. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " Veritas" shall appear to-morrow. The puldietalon qf Tii. SUN NIEWSPAPRR commenced this day at _0 minutes past Three o' Clock. ..... ..;'-` , '.l:'7 r.. 4-..*,: - .1 7 . r - Ay.- ~. z.-d... ~- ....±.....c.,- . . - \.:- , 4 i , _,_ , z 1 --,./4 .. - v,. -*ilk , ,:___„.,,L.,--,,,,,,.._ . • -,- -;_.,, _.,,,,,,,,.., 4, ( - 1 7 9 t, /J)K WITH WHICH ,c THE TRUE SUN " IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1838. Such of our readers as look at the Tory journals will be I aware that their language yesterday in relation to Mr. O'CONNELL was that of unm:ngled triumph. The hopes of their party were excited to the utmost. They had oh- tained victory upon victory over the master of the Minis ters, and they never doubted the speedy accomplishment of their fondest wishes. In that delightful frame of mind they hurried to the House of Commons at an early tiour. Never were the benches, never was the g dlery, more crowded. Some doubts were thrown out whether Mr. O'CONNELL would appear to receive the reprimand, hut the Tories never dreamed that if he did attend, he would not quail abashed under the expression of their dreadful ire r)lennely' pronounced by the SPEAKER. When the order of the day was called there was a dead silence. The intenseness of hope almost suppressed tl.c breathings of the Tories, and expectation became quite awful. " You may almost. hear men's hearts heat," was the whispered remark of a deeply-observ ing spectator. A slight cloud appeared to come over the face of the Tories, previously radiant with joy, as Mr. O'CoNNELL, starting up in his place on his name being called, readily answered in a cheerful tone, " Here I am, Sir." That cloud deepened a little, as the SPEAKER, in his address, which the Tories admit to have " been credit ahle to him," and " not deficient in dignity of demeanour," went on to characterise, with great truth and justice, the language which Mr. O'CONNELL had used, pointing out to him how he might judiciously have employed his great ener gies in improving the Bill intended to reform the tribunal which Mr. O'CoNNELL impugned, thereby at once admit ting much of the truth of those accusations the majority had pronounced to be Use and scandalous ; and that cloud became dark and gloomy, as the SPEAKER, adverting to the usual mode in which the House was wont to " consult its real dignity, and obey the dictates of true wisdom, in relying for protection and defence against misroprescntation and calumny on the consciousness of the zeal and fidelity with which it discharges its duty to the people whom it represents," gave an inilireet, but a severe reproof to the indiscreet meddling of those " fools" who " rush in where angels fear to tread." When Mr. O'CONNELL, however, who had stood and listened to the SPEAKER'S ri primand with calm dignity, instead of sinking into his place, and cosering his face with both his hands, or rubbing out of the House in an agony of humiliatlen, contrition, and shame, went on to speak in a firm, calm, and dignified manner, the Tories began to have serious misgivings, and the faces erewhile radiant with hope, and then clouded with doubt, begun to grow alternately pallid with fear, and red with shame. But when Mr. O'CONNELL had con el'ided sprteeb, in which he brought much additional and valu Me evidence to elucidate the character of Election Committees, demonstrating by the records of several years experience that he had spoken correctly of the conduct of the Members—in which he contrasted with powerful effect the honour of gentlemen of the bar who were ashamed to put questions which " some friendly Member" was put up to ask—in which he alluded to a flagrant illustration of al l he had said, that many Members knew was to come before the Ilcuie that evening, and in which ha solemnly and more than once repeated his charge, declaring, " I repent nothing —I retract nothing ;" " I am bound to r:-assert what I (lave z.: - .3erted,"—when iSir. O'CONNELL had concluded a speech which the force of truth made overpowering, and the con tietiens of the Members made almost annihilating, by re crating in firmer, though less offensive language, the charge of perjury, the joy and pride of the poor Tories had fled, and they wished themselves far away from the unsparing lash of him whose humiliation they had assembled to gloat over. The Protetant Lord MmosToNE was struck dumb by the truth poured forth by the Catholic Mr. O'CoN NELL. Another Protestant Lord, who inherits all the un bashed promptness of his family, rose to speak, but failed to make his voice reach the SPEAKER'S ear. The leaders all sat silent. The plausible Sir ROBERT fretted his chin and t:ose with meditative ribbing, without being able to chafe into life a single hostile attack. The Earonct of the North, so prompt to vaunt his mighty intentions, so apt, Eke his ancestor, to be wanting in the hour of need, was 4s sile nt as his (lief. Even Mr. WYNN heard, with help less astonishment, all precedents set at naught by the conversion of a reprimand into a brilliant triumph, without being able to come to the help of the two Protestant Lords, and the two Leaders of the Protestant party, by one r_ingle citation. Not a Tory demanded that Mr. O'CoN NELL'S reiteration of his charge should ba taken down ; but they all sat perplexed, and wondering what heavier blow -was next to fall on them. Nothing, in truth, was wanting to complete their humiliation, but the appearance at the bar of the Chairman of the London Election Committee, to report that a Tory Member of that Committee, a gentleman remarkable for his regularity, preciseness, and the comparative strict nes of his morality, had found out that morning, that he, being a citizen of London, had voted for Mr. PALMER at the last election, though he had declared at the table of the House only the day before that he had not so voted, and was accordingly, after being challenged, appointed on the Committee. This extraordinary instance of defective memory in a Tory Member appointed to decide oil an election in which he was interested, completed Mr. O'CONNELL'S statements, and then the Protestant Tories felt that they were publicly convicted of an odious offence, a knowledge of which they had impressed deep into the public mind, by seeking to vent their poor and bigotted spite against the Catholic Member for Dublin. Never did full blown hopes collapse so suddenly, and prove their own ❑othingness. Never were men in a more pitiable plight. They seemed ready, like the man in the play, to sink into a heap of dust, which filled the chambermaid with sorrow, as " she would have to sweep him up." A poor wretch caught in the act of picking a pocket, or any dear professing friend —a character better known to many Honourable Gentle men than the pickpocket—caught in the arms of his friend's wife, is an apt symbol of the dismay of the To ries. No woe-begone wretch whom poets have pictured, not even he " who drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night," looked half so wan as the Tories, who, a short half-hour before, had hastened to the House, to exult over Mr. O'CoNNELL's humiliation, and see his servants, as the Tories profess to call the Ministers, sneak out of office. Poor, disappointed, branded, Tories— we should pity them if they bad yesterday shown, when they believed :the victory to be . theirs, one spark of charity or humane .forbearance towards the lion whom they had caught in their toils. But slow torture alone had they in prospect, and well have they merited the chastisement they inflicted on themselves. We yesterday published a list of the professing Liberals who were absent from the House the evening before ; but we are no longer sorry that they neglected their duty. They have unintentionally given to Mr. O ' CONNELL the greatest triumph he ever yet obtained. Many of them meant, we believe, to show their hostility to him : for this their constituents will probably reward them at a fitting opportunity. But whatever might have been their motives, they have rendered to him and the public a most signal sen ice. But for their absence, which allowed the Tories to subject him to a solemn reprimand, we should not have witnessed their humiliatiun ; and should not have obtained the conviction that not a Member of the House of Commons, alter being accused of partiality, injustice, and perjury, dared to stand up and de fend the conduct of Election Committees. The conclusion to this important farce will probably make the Tories here after cautious how they allow the political and religious prejudices of Lord WINCIIILSEA'S son to be the rule of Lheir policy. Whether the present times will be called by future his torians the age of the marvellous or the age of the credu lous, or both, we cannot say—certain it is that we are surrounded by circumstances of the most surprising cha racter. First, we have Mr. MURPHY and his marvellous predictions in the very teeth of a sacred authority, which tells us that the " wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth." Mr. MURPHY said he could—half this Christian country believed him—and the especial oracle of the Parsons, our beloved Grandmama, apologized to her readers for having omitted for one day his most valuable and veracious pre dictions. Next, we have Election Committees for the last 20 years, in nine cases out of every ten (as can Le proved from our own files) deciding, when a majority of Tories, in favour of the Tory ; when a majority of Whigs, in favour of the Whigs ; and the assembled Representatives of the whole people of England solemnly believe and declare, that this most astonishing coincidence was perfectly correct and proper, and according to " truth, honour, and law," and that to say otherwise was " a false and scandalous imputation," to be visited by a severe re primand. Next, and at the very moment an Honourable Member of the House hears several other Members ob jected to for having voted at the election for the City of London, and set aside on that account—such Honourable Member being well known as one of the most zealous Tories in the whole kingdom, and from that very zeal the most likely to be deeply impressed with every thing he himself does to promote t'ie cause—and yet this very Honourable Member declares that he positively did not recollect till the morning after he was sworn to try this particular election, that he himself voted at it—and this wonderful absence of memory is true—and the G5B Representatives of the people believe it at the very moment they are reprimanding Mr. O'CoNNELL for his want of Nth in this and similar miracles. 011! for a Prince HouliNt.onE and a Mother SOUTHCOTE! What golden days are in waiting for them. Why do not their followers appeal to the country, and especially to the majority of the Rouge of Commons % Prophet BROTHERS only got one Member of Parliament to believe in him—were he to rise ugain one might ahnoit promise him 263. We d:rect the public attention to another article on the coal trade, by which it appears that the average number of colliers lying in the river in the three months of October, November, and December, was 161. That number was increased in January and February, when the severity of Ole weather impeded the operation of unloading them, to 217. We are informed too that Committees of the House of Commons have established the fact, that the colliers wait on an average at least four weeks for their tura to unload. The expcnse of keeping 164 or 217 vessels lying idle may be estimated from the account which our Correspondent supplies of the expense of a single vessel. If that be as is stated, 1571., the expense of the 164 vessels will be 25,478/. The mode, too, in Iv:licit the shipowners arc remunerated at the expense of the coal owner, is worthy of notice. Only so many tons of coals are paid for in the Tyne, as the vessel is registered to carry ; but she carries a great many more, and the over plus is the source of the ship-owner's profit. In all these regulations and proceedings, there are restrictions and fic tions which are more worthy of our courts of law, than of the straight forward dealings of commerce. We have r. , ceived a file of Upper Cana la Journals to the 26th of January inclusive. The Gazelle contains a proclamation by her Majesty the QUEEN, appointing Tues day, the 6th instant, a day of public thanksgiving, for the deliverance of the Province " from the dangers and cala mities of the unnatural insurrection and rebellion," which so r:cently threatened it. In the Gazette of the 22d, we find a message from Sir F. B. HEAD to the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in which his Excellency gives the following account of his retirement from the government of the province The Lieutenant-Governor takes this opportunity to com municate to the Legislative Council, that havin g had the mis fortune to differ from her Majesty's Government on one or two joints of Colonial policy, he felt it his duty, on the loth of September last, respectfully to tender to her Majesty's Princi pal Secretary of State for the Colonies, the resignation of the important station which for a short time he has had the honour to hold in this province." The addressee voted by both branches of the Legis -1 iture, in answer to this Message, are filled with commendations of the wisdom of Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD, whom the Members declare to be entitled to the gratitude, not only of Canada, but of Great Britain. In a second address, they pray the Governor to submit to them those paints of policy upon which he differed with her Majesty's Ministers, in order, it may be presumed, to enable them to decide upan the merits of the contest. The Gallant Consmander of the Toronto Invincible s had the good sense to perceive that this was carrying the joke a little too far—that the judgment of the Canadian Legislature was not called for upon such a question as that at issue between himself and the British Cabinet. He, therefore, signified to them that such a disclosure could not be made without embarrassing the conduct of his successor ; although personally it would delight him to comply with the prayer of their address. His Excellency likewise communicated to the Legislature all the documents in his possession, relative to the progress and suppression of the insurrection and the destruction of the Caroline, hut as they contain no new fact of importmee, and as the great bulk of them have already appeared in The San, we cannot crowd our columns with them to the exclusion of more useful and interesting matter. The Pais Journals of Tuesday contain na political news of either local or general interest, except what will be found, in the annexed extracts : We have the following letter from our correspondent : MADRID, FEB. IS.-eneral Oraa seeing himself aban doned by the Government has sent in his resignation. It seems that the Liberal party is recovering courage, and will soon come into power. The Marquis de Miraflores, an ardent partisan of the slata quo, was hissed in his late speech rela tive to the projects of the Cabinet of the Tuileries. Don Francisco earnestly desires to go to Italy with his wife and children. The Queen, who distrusts his wife, who aspires to the Regency, and perhaps even to the throne, has refused to grant him his passport. Don Francisco, forgetting his habitual calmness, replied that it depended only on himself to be in a condition to prescribe laws to her. We yesterday announced the death of M. de Grammont. We learn with satisfaction that this news is not true. He is indeed seriously ill, but yet he appears to be getting better, so as to give some hopes to his family and friends.—Constitti tionnel. _ . The Phare de Bayonne has the following letter SARAGOSA, FED. 19--The army of the centre is going to be divided into two points; one will be under General Santos San Miguel, the other will be commanded by General Borso de Carminati. Oraa will remain Commander-in-Chief of these two corps and of the two provinces. Oraa left Teruel on the 16th, with a battalion of light ar tillery, and the two squadrons which have remained in that town since their arrival from Madrid. Gardesa is now besieged by Forcadell with a battalion and two companies of the corps of Cabrera. It has hitherto de fended itself with vigour. It is affirmed that a foreign legation, much devoted to Don Carlos, spreads a report of many important advantages gained by his troops. We not only think•these reports incorrect, but believe ourselves authorised to think that we shall soon know at Paris the details of an action between the Carlists and the Christinos, the result of which are wholly favourable to the Queen's troops. —Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS —Puts, Fas. 27. Five per Cents.. 109 f. 75c. '7oc. 60c. Three per Cents. 79f. 75c. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,6571. 50c. 2,655 f. Amite de Naples, 99f. 991. c. Roman Five per Cents.. 101%. Spanish Actives, Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 104 1 4. Belgian Bank, 1,5201. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 17% 11. Haytian Loan, 3901. DICITANOR oN LONDON. One month, paper, —f. • money, 25f. 50c Three months, paper, 25f. 3:5c. ; money, 151. 35c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 109 f. 60c. Three per Cents. '791. 69c. Bank Actions, 2,6551. Romans ' 101%. Belgian Bank, 1,5201. Belgian Loan, 104!4. Haytian Loan, 390 E Spanish Actives, 19%. i f o DUTCH FUNDS.—ANITELIDANI, Fee. 26. Actual Debt, 2y 9 per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4N, per Cent., Do. do. :IX, per Cent. Commercial Company, 43 per Cent 179 New ditto r.ELGt AN FUNDS—Bausegts, FEB. 5.7. Actual Debt, .2X, per Cent. RotbAchild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lta Loan Loan of Citv;lB39, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4c, per Cent 149 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l O ll National Society . —Brussels Papers, Feb. 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 19 Five per Cents. Metalliquea Four per Cents. Ma Three per Cents. Bank Shares ...411gemeine Zeituag, Feb. 24. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The post was again late:this morning. At 11 o'clock the letters were nr.t delivered. Consols yesterday afternoon became bu o r nt, and closed at 924 93 fdr Money, and 93 to 931 for the Account; opened this morning at the above prices. Exchequer Bills 55 to 60 ; India Bonds unmarked 125.; Bank Stock 207; India Stock 264 265. Spanish Active 191 with Coupons; Portuguese 27/ ; Three per Cents. 18 181 ; Mexican 29 291 ; Brazilian 74h 75 ; Colombian 281 28e ; Dutch 531 531. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of the 28th February, with the Amsterdam prices of the 26 th February. Five per Cents. 1011- ; Two-and.a.Half per Cents. 53 5-16.; Spanish IS 3-16. Within this half hour Brazilian Stock has improved from 74} 7:.; to 76. We do not hear the cause of ti PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Mink Stock ... :3 per ceA. Amt. 93 1 / 2% :1 per C2iit. Cons ',”;, per Cent......... I)itco Red.... 10 1 1,04% New 3}.', per Cent......... WON % 7' New 5 per Cent Batik Long Annuitiestnexpirr San. 5, 1t)4i0~, Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 14ti0 14 15-16 Jan. 5, BSI) April 5, Mit .1111. 5, 1t;7.9 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian nonds Belgian Bonds lll5 Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds he rise as yet. , . i Southo l) ,,i . \, Y knsn ' f Stock t.si : :: : : :: ....................................................................... 1 -- ,, tto Bands ea , Now Ditto. .... . ..................... 91 3 per Cent. Annuities. IV. 1 ••• - Exch. Bills. £l,nil . ......... 6 0 (11 , ern 91)DiiittttttoGo Smallo inm e..r.c.i.5()41.1..................... .. 111;(1 (65.1 ::: Ditto Advort hied ............ .-.-- l er, Bank Stock for Account ......... ‘0751 1 IPHE-1 Stock for 3 % .I.ccoulit .......... , Consols for Account ..... 93th THIS DAY AT ON E O'CLOCK. I Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account ........ ....... ... 1.0% Portuguese 80iei5...... ........ •••• Ditto Acaolint .................. 19 Ditto Account 75 6,4 f.% Buenos Ayres Bonds Dltto Acc,,unt 80nd5............ Ditto Account CJlurnlnan Bonds Ditto New Bon,h; .............. Ditto Account ..... •••• Mao, 3 per ... Pri.nzian Mods.— .............. _— ItuN3ian Bonrts, 18'2'2 ...... Ditto Account ...... .•••• ....... Dittc Account ........ 'thrnbian Bends, ..1.421 oq ilitto Account .x) tt , t 4 K, Bonds ... — Ditto AccGutat ........ ........ Spanish Buntis ..................... Ditto Account ........... Ditto Bondi. 133 4 .............. 10.34 Ditto Account ............... 1934% ky t;reak Bonis Ditto Ikatds, 1t325 Ditto Account ........ French, r ce sne nt.. ••• ••••• •••••i• 4 r er cent........... —t. L. pc! ...... —f. —4. Aes:can Bontls, 5 per cent.... ---- E;ocha n g e *********** .—..!"" Ditto Account ....... ........ Dutch, 2' per cent ......... 53,42 `No, t; per cent . ...... 29 1 ,4 1 Ditto Account ............... ~,__., Ditto Account C29% ; Ditto, 5 rer cant ......... 1133% % 'L . Nc,syolitan . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY Al —I Ditto Account .................. CAndonga Mining Company 714 '734 20 —Omni:ham and Derltv Itit!way Company ontinercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 5 3 4 9.!.i Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Cono2,iny eat a ` extern Railway Company (l5 58q N 9 Hail and Selby ttailway Company lO 8 rtghtun R kilw. y Company' London .11 d Blackwall Railway ga l' T 3 Ditto Scrip 3 6% t ondon and Birmingham Railway Company 941 165 3 Ditto t 4 Shares .. omlon and Greenwich Aaalway Company te., 19!.i London (Irand Junction Railway London, Sallisbury, and Exeter Railway I 4s Ranchestur and Leeds Railway Company •. LT cheater and Birmingham Railway Midland Counties itaill4l? Company 2O 21 northern and Eastern Railway Company .... Anti Dryrot Company IN 15% 14i IS National Bank of Ireland... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 27. 3 par Cent. Consols 9216 Grand Canal I b - !bs. t; per cent. 9t Ditto Reduced ---H Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ....... ... - 31‘, per Ceti , . Stock 99% Hibeinian Bank .. .......... ........ 21i, 'Ditto Nisi'', 1:13,1 ..... 3'' er Cent. I kbentures - Bank Stock - 1' City Debentures, 4 pe r cent.... --- - railast Office Debentures,4 per R o yal Cana Suck 28 G ran d Canal Stock % cent HALF-PAST 'ONE O'CLOCK We hava received a file of American Papers this morning by . the Columbus, of the same date as previously received. By them it ap pears that there was a rumour at Washington, on the 30th of January, that some Cabinet changes were In agitation. Mr. Dickenson, Secre tary of the Navy, had resigned; and it was stated confidently *at Mr. Van Buren would be glad to get rid of some others of his Cabinet, such as Mr. Wendall and Mr. Woodbury. Owing to the absence both of Continental and American intelligence of any consequence to the present hour, the British and Foreign funds continue inactive, and Consols may he quoted at the opening prices of 03 931 for the Ace:nint ; Money 921 93. Exchequer Bills improved, no 6 0 ; India Bonds to be paid off 13s. prem. ; Batik Stock 2061 207 ; India Stock 265. In Ow Foreign Market nothing doing, except in Brazil Stock, which reac hed in the course of the morning 76i, since which it h as rece d e d to 75,1 ; Spanish Active, 19.1., with Coupons; Portugurs„ SS; Three per Cents, 181 ; Mexican, 291 ; Columbian, 281 ; Peruvian, 20 ; Belgian, 103 !,6 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents, 53%. Very little doing in Shares. THREE O'CLOCK. The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do hereby give notice, that on and after the Ist inst., they will be ready to receive ap plications for Loans on deposit of approved Bills of Exchange,not having more than six months to run, such Loans to be repai:l on or before the 16th April next, with interest at the rate of 3!y per Cent. per annum, and to be fur sums of not less than 2,0001. Bank of England, March 1, 1838. Consuls for the Account, 92k. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEB. 2S. The sales to-day a mount to 3,000 bags, 'The market has be en ver y flat, owing in a great measure, to many of the holders being so very anxious to push their Cotton off. Prices of the inferior to good fair qualities are Id. ;or lb. lower sines Friday. In the really good quali ties there is no change :-300 Surat 4 id. 6d. ; 30 Marauham 9 id. ; 100 Egyptian B, a t d. ; 25 American 6d.-9cl. for Orleans, THE SUN, LONDON, THURS DAY, MAIICFI 1, 1838 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, FEB. 28 —Wind S., moderate. Arrived and proceeded for the riser, the Medi tor, Chaplin, from New York. Came down from the liver and proceeded, the Chieftain (steamer) for Lisbon. The Cleo, patra, Bothwell, fik Demerara, put back this morning and remains. PI , RTSMOUTII, FEB. 28.—Wind, S.W. to S.S.E., fair. Arrived, the Liberty, Russell, from London. Put back, the Sir Edward Paget, Hall, and proceeded again fur London. Sailed, her Majesty's ship, Brisk, for the coast of Africa ; Louisa, Valk, for Rotterdam ; Gustav Adolph, Arends, for Antwerp. MARGATE, FEB. 28.—Arrived off port, the Belize, Bower, from Sligo. lIAMSGATE, FEB. 28.--Arrived, the Cybele, A spling, from Charleston. WATERFORD, FEB. 27. Arrived, the Martha, from London. DUBLIN, FEB. 27.—Arrived the Sultan, Poole, from Calcutta; So merset, Ballet, and Ballinasloc steamer, from London. ISLE or , Wrcirr, Fr.n 28.—Arrived the Gertrude, Constantinople. Cods, Fs:a. 16.—Arrived the Wharfingcr, Cousens, from London ; and Sarah, from St. John's, New Brunswick. BELFAST, FEB. 26.—Arrived the Ardent, Mackie, from London. HOLYHEAD, FEB. 28.—Arrived off port the John Taylor, Charleston. BRISTOL, FEB. 28.—Arrived the Mariner, Escott, from Odessa. Pr.vstourtr, FEB. 27.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed the Protector, from St. Vincent's; and Princess Augusta, from Barbaclow.e. FALMOUTH, FEB. '27.—Wind E. to S., light breezes with rain.—Ar rived the Shannon steamer, from London. Sailed the Rambler, for Berbice; and Malay, for Barbadoes. The Amaratta, bound to Glasgow, is on shore near Belfast ; crew saved. The Actif, of Krageroe, was fallen in with in lat. 49. lon. 6. dis mantled and abandoned. The Latona, Mann, sailed from St. Jago de Cuba, Nov. 21, for Swan sea, and has not since been heard of. The Volusea, Grant, of Salcombe and Bowen, of Belfast, are totally wrecked at Sherries. The Orestes, Crawford, from Glasgow to Bristol, is on shore near A rklow—crew saved. The Susannah and Mary, Barrow, from Aberdovey. is wrecked at the entrance of Lough Foyle—crew drowned. The John Heyes, Hutchinson, from London, put into Plymouth leaky, and must discharge—bound to Barbadoes. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. William Bowers, a letter-carrier in the Post-office, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing and secreting two letters while employed in that capacity. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Pit.i.mes for the prisoner. The Rev. Dr. Dlbden, Rector of St. Mary's, Marylebone, was pro duced on the part of the prisoner, and gave him an excellent character. lie stated that he had been in his service for ten years previous to his entering the Post-office, and that he always found him a person of un. deviating integrity and good conduct, otherwise he should not have re. commended him to that establishment. Edward Brenchley Hogwood, who pleaded not guilty yesterday to an indictment, charging him with stealing a letter, containing 51., the pro perty of Jonathan Chapman, lie being employed at the time in the Post. office, on being placed at the bar this morning, .begged to withdraw his former plea, and to plead guilty to the two last counts in the indict ment, which charged him merely with stealing the letter, but did not allege that it contained valuable security. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then said, that as the previous character of the prisoner had been represented to him as excellent, he would, on the part of the Post-office, enter a nolle prosequi en the remaining and more serious counts of the indictment. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) INGRATITUDE. — Edward Elton', a private in the Marines, was in dicted for stealing 165., the property of Mary Mitchell. It appeared that the prosecutrix, a poor woman, residing on Bexley Heath, was at the Coach and Horses, Woolwich, on the day of the rob bery, and there met the prisoner and one of his comfades. Ellam asked her to stand a pot of beer, which she did ; but on his requesting her to order another, she refused, being a poor broom-seller. After some en treaty, however, she yielded to his request, and took out a bag contain. ing some silver to pay for the beer, when the prisoner snatched it from her and ran out of the house. A policeman was called and stated, that when he apprehended the prisoner he had a considerable portion of the money in his possession. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The RECORDER asked if any one knew what the prisoner's previous character had been. The constable replied that the Sergeant-major had given an excellent character. The ItEcoanna said it would be well if some one from the corps at tended to t istify that fact before sentence was passed. The officer of the Court was directed to make the poor woman a liberal allowance. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, cr the Week ended Fob. 23, ISA made up from the Returns of the loweeters in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 553 2d. Oats ...... 266 9.1. Beans 32g. OJ. B a rley 2 83 Si. . Rya 3IYERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE SIX WESKS ?RECEDING. Wheat 54•. lid. Oats I Barley 283 10.1. Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN COEN'. Wheat 3?s Oats Barley I 104. lty• ... 275. SM. I Pease 213.. 3d MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fah today generally dear, as it was everywhere else. Cod very high for good ; Soles, 9d. to is. 6d. per pair; Lobsters dear, say Is. to 3s. and 33. 6d. each,' and higher ; Turbot, 6s. to 18s. and 19s. and higher for the very finest. Meat trade not very brisk—Beef, 7d. to 61d. Mutton, '7,1. to 9d. y Veal, ficl to U '4d. ; pork, 7d. to 9.3. Vegetables a little cheaper. Hay and Clover firm in price. CITY FISH MARKET. Supply to a fair extent to-day, except for Cod, which was very dear. Turbot, ss. to 20s. and 21s. ; Soles, Gd. to 2.5, Gd. per pair ; Lobsters dear, say Is. to 4s. Gd. and ss. ; Whiting, sd. to 10d.; trade pretty fair in most kinds. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. continues steady iN demand, and firm in price at 495. 6d. DYE MARKET. The only variation in prices in this market is in Brazil woad, which is now 2/. to 3/. per too lower. First pile 551., second pile 751., and third Si)!. per ton. These are the quotations. Cochineal is Id. to 2.1. per lb. higher for some sorts. Orange Shellac is a little lower, the quo. tation now being 6/. 10s. CANADIAN PRODUCE MARKET. This market remains much as it has been for some time. Prices arc unvaried, and business is very languid. COLONIAL MARKETS. There is very little doing to.day in these markets, except in Rice and Cassia, of which there were two public sales-3,124 bags of Java Rice, and 1,495 chests of Cassia Lignea. Firmness in these commodities ap pears to be their character just now. Rice has lately been much in de mand. B. P. Sugar continues without any activity, and prices in some in stances easier. Refined Sugar remains dull, but is not lower. Although Colr.,e, as by our yesterday's report, had taken a turn for lower prices, the holders show great reluctance to go with a decline, and hence there is very little doing, and very little advertised. Tea continues much as last quoted. The certainty of an advance in Raw Sugar of different kinds do , s not seem so great as it was. Runs, Cotton, Spices, and Indigo are finn, but not securing much business from various causes. East India Ginger has risen in price, and must now be quoted at 325. 6d. to 335. 6d. for good. Saltpetre is dull, but not lower. The chief sales for to morrow are of Mauritius and Bengal Sugar, and a small sale of British Plantation Coffee, The Imports are not so large as they were. COAL MART Per Tots. is, O. Iliirdon ..... Chester M.tin Lease's Main Original Windsor Poniop South Hartley 22 .6 rantield Moor 24 0 Walls End Cewicke and Cu , 24 6 Walls End Clark and Co—._ 21 9 Walls End Heaton 24 3 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Ships antra since .ET.—Feb. 2.8 Per Ton. s. 01. Walls End Lanchester 9 0 Walls End Walker 23 6 _ . Walls End Braciyll's ilettou 27 3 Will End Helton 27 3 ik rs F.nJ Ltmbton 27 3 Walk End Russel's Fletton 27 3 Walk End Stewart's ... 3 Walk End- Hartlepool 27 3 Walk End Deanery 22 ti Walls End Barrington 22 3 last market-day, 24. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN THE WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. I *Oats. Beans. Pease. -- Per Quarter. s. to s. 3. to 3. s. to s. 3. to s. s. to 3. Abi1igd0n......—....... 44 50 30 34 22 30 as Andover ----. 47 52 29 31 25 43 Birmingham.......... 341 48 30 40 16 22 33 Bridport ---.. 38 50 32 36 26 30 39 Cirencester —....—. 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40 Faringdoit—. 35 46 Pfi 30 26 30 46 Guildfoid .....--,... 38 54 28 35 20 30 46 Fienley---.. 42 54 26 32 23 26 43 Hereford —3; 49 26 52 22 29 46 40 High wial h ......».. 42 60 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead ........... 32 58 24 36 20 28 34 41 34 38 Monmouth— .....—....... 46 44 :32 31 22 29 34 40 Reading .....—.......—.. 34 57 25 35 i2O 27 33 42 35 Salisbury.— . , 44 51 30 34 20 28 41 46 Southampton ......... 45 s'l 33 40 28 32 42 Stroud — ........ 36 44 28 361 20 24 46 Tewkesbury ..—..... 54) 35 22 32 40 -- Uxbridge ..............—.... 40 48 28 32 17 28 40 42 Wantage.---- 32 52 24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48 Warminster . 30 40 27 34 22 26 36 40 Windsor---......... 59 21 22 35 Worcester—.—... 53 56 32 :lc 30 32 46 40 48 CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s.d Pet lb. d. to d Wheat tS:t r ley Oats 3 0 4 0 Veal Beans Pease 4 0 4 - 4 Larch 0 0 flay 5/.os. ti 5/. 10s. Od. pf r ton. HULL NI Alt K gr.—Feb. Wheat, Old s'ls 53:. 555....... New ___.--- Foreign —s. —s. —s. ln bond... —s. —8 —2. Oats, Poland —s. 235. 24s Old —s. 245. 265. Small or Feed.... —l. I 6s. IBs ____ Foreign —s. —s. s Barley, Norf. & Suf ... 265. —s. 325. Line. & Wold —s. 28t. MI ----- Foreign - fi. --E. Beans 365. :Vs. 40s. Foreign rove, White.... 44s. 455. 465. Grey 345..61. 335. 1 'arei RaPcseed, in bond none Free, per last 23'. Os. 25/. The dispute between the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Company and some of the prop r i e t ors o f l an d t h roug h which the canal isintended to be cut, is not yet adjusted. A jury sat at Wells the greater part of the week before last to hear evidence on the subject, and on Saturday adjourned to the Ist of April. —Somerset County Gazette. T H E KING OF TIIE NETIIERLANISS.—His Ma jesty the King of the Netherlands has been graciously pleased to bestow upon Alan Stevenson, Elq., Of Edinburgh, civil e ngineer, a gold medal, bearing a profile of her Majesty, and all inscription in Dutch, to the following effect :--" To Alan Stevenson, of Edinb urg h, for his Treatise on the Illu mination of Lighthouses, by means of Lenses, from the MDCCCXXXVIi." The Governors of the Trinity-house have given di rections that a lighthouse shall be immediately built at Niton, near Sandrock, Isle of Wight. The spot selected is near Roekenend Race, near which spot the Clarendon, Indiaman, was lost last year. A LONG RIDE.—A farmer having staid late at market on Friday last, got into the midnight mail which leaves Exeter for London, intending to be put down at his own gate. The agreeable motion of the coach had such a soothing effect on his mind, that he soon fell fast asleep, and it was not till they got to Mutton that the guard and the coachman re membei ed that they had a mellow member of the agricultural interest inside. He was awoke here, and finding where he was, he made the best of a bad matter by taking a bed for the night, and returning home by the coach the next morning—to the great joy of his despairing friends,.—. Western Times. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) CITY OF LONDON. Mr. Cunam, Chairman. This Committee met this morning at 11 o'clock, when Mr. Tit ESSIGER opened the case for the petitioners. He said his first duty was to state the reason the petitioners had thought it proper to dispute the whole of the return made for the City of Lou- don at the last election. The case, as being a metropolitan ouc, was of much importance, it was also important from its cir cumstances, but he relied with the utmost confidence upon the wisdom, the firmness, and the impartiality of the Committee. Ile felt perfectly satisfied that if the facts, as they had been laid before him, were substantiated, the result of the proceedings would be fatal to the seats of the whole four Members for London, for the practices which he was instructed would be moved were of so pernicious a character, they tended so to corrupt the electors, that the Committee would seize with avidity an opportunity of punishing those who had been guilty of them, as well as those who profited by them, and in s uch a case their 'decision must be favourable to the petitioners. Much prejudice had been attempted to be excited against the petitioners because, having had only one candidate at the election, they attempted to unseat the whole four Members. Putting these practices, of which they complained, out of view for a moment, he would prove to the Com mittee that they were compelled by necessity to have recourse to such a proceeding. If a candidate presented himself to the notice of electors on his own individual interest, of course lie could only be affected by matters relating to himself or his own individual agent. But if candidates chose to make common cause together—if they came in a body before the electors and told them, " You must take us all, or have none of us"—if they em ployed the same agents—if they canvassed each fur one another, and for all—if their common object could not be attained without having recourse to such practices as lie had alluded to, and their com mon agent were found to be the guilty party, then surely, morally as well as legally, each and all were answerable for the faults of each other. His case was, that the four sitting Members for London, at the late election, made common came ; that corrupt prac tices were resorted to; and that each and all of the Members are liable for the consequences. For the purpose of conducting the election, two persons were engaged of the name of Croucher —a name now well known in election matters ; they seemed to be persons who were much more anxious about the end, than scru pulous about the means. They were the agents—they employed the whole machinery—and they were' the persons engaged: to perform the somewhat delicate task of soliciting unwilling voters. The head quarters of the formidable gang were fixed in Guildhall Coffee house. The lower floor was Mr. Croucher's—for his clerks, &c. On the first was the General Committee-room ; and on the second floor was the private or secret Committee room of Mr. Tijou, the secretary. The secret Committee consisted of Mr. Travers, the Chairman of the united Committee, Mr. Tijou, Mr. Joseph Crouchre, and the four candidates. Croucher issued placards soliciting votes, nol for any one candidate, but for all—the canvassing was in the same mode—all the four candidates had only one committee and one Committee-room, he expected to be able to prove that a sum of money was lodged in the bank of Rogers, Twogood, :and Co. on behalf of the four candidates, which money was reached by checks signed by Mr. Travers, the Chairman of the United Committee, and that they in all matters acted in concert. There were a number of District Com mittee: formed, to all of which Committees were attached one of Mr. Croucher's clever clerks, one who was well acquainted with his ways, and who knew the particular meaning to be attached to the pe culiar expression he was in the habit of using. All these Committees were actively engaged in canvassing, and sent in a Report to Mr. Croucher every night, and the clerk, in his little red book, made certain little marks with red ink, which were well understood by Mr. C. They were placed against the names of those voters who would not vote for the Reformers unless they were solicited in a very peculiar manner. When the election began, it was easily and at once seen, that the Messrs. Crouchers, were determined to carry it by all means, either fair or foul. There was a district in Bermondsey which contained a considerable number of ♦otes, who were called the Long Shore men, they were mostly watermen and others of that class, and it was important that they:should be secured for the four Reformers. Accordingly a Mr. Thomson was instructed to negociate with them. On the 19th of July, he received instructions from Mr. Tijon to accompany him and a Mr. Young, to open the delicate negociation. They went to the Black Bull in Rotlierhithe, which was kept by a Mr. Everitt. ;hey there opened a District Committee, and Mr. Thomson was put under the orders of Mr. Young, and they proceeded to canvass these long. shore men. If they were found favourable, they were sent to the Black Bull, where such arrangements were made for securing their votes, as at first sight afforded some colour, or shelter, for the con. trivances which were resorted to. The voters were named as a Committee, or were made messengers, with nothing to do; and they were to get one pound each upon promising their vote, and another after they had polled. It would have been too barefaced to have done it openly, and accordingly they were all made something of by the clever Mr. Croucher. They assembled at the Black Bull, where they received refreshments of all kinds. On the Friday became clamourous for their money, and declared that they would not vote if they did not get it. Mr. Guthrie went to Mr. Sturmy, who was the legal adviser for the four candidates, and, on his return he promised them the 1/. each next morning, and he would prove that they received it to the number of 33 ; he would also prove they polled for the Members, and that they again received their reward of I/. Mr. Sturmy's bill amounted to 3451., only 50 guineas of which was charged for services ; the rest must have been expended for illegal purposes, and no doubt the 661. formed one of the items. He would prove that the same vicious practices were carried on in almost all the other districts. When the election was on, and when it begun to pinch, he would prove that Mr. Croucher in the presence of Tijon and Mr. Grote, sent out word to the districts, that voters must be sent up at all hazards—a phrase well known to those clerks at the various Committees, who were well aware of its meaning— and it would be proved, that to one of the messengers he said, valets must be sent up, even if he paid for them. One voter refused to vote without being paid two sovereigns, which were given him. A Mr. Deans refused to vote unless he received a presentation for his son for Christ's Hospital. He would prove that, at all events, he got a promise of one. One man, with a wonderful name—a Mr. Wonderful Chertsey—would not vote unless he got a place under the Government. He would prove that, after allowing the Members no rest. he had an in terview with Mr. Pattison, who gave him a letter to Mr. Stanley of the Treasury—from thence to' a Commissioner of Excise, and, wonderful to relate, the next day saw Mr. Chertsey a Custom-house watchman. He would prove many other cases of bribery, the parties being what was called taken on. They were taken on, but it was only to vote. He would prove very extensive treating, which of itself would make void the election ; he would prove that after the testing of the writ, there were various houses kept open for the voters, where they obtained both meat and liquor, and h• was instructed that scenes of great intoxication were the consequence. If he proved these cases to the satisfaction of the: Committee, then their duty would be plain—they must unseat the four Members, and then it would be his duty to go into a scrutiny, fur the purpose of seating Mr, Palmer, which would be a matter of no difficulty. Ile then called the Under-Sherifl's to produce the poll-books. COAL MONOPOLY OF THE PORT OF LONDON. " In consequence of a complaint made by our employers, the coal-ownurs and ship-owners, in 1834, a meeting of the factors took place, when a resolution was passed that certain quantities of coals should only be offered for sale, to support a fair remunerating price."—Evidence of Mr. U. Clarke trt Parliament, June 3, 1836. On reading this candid and extraordinary declaration, we are naturally driven to ask by what right can a few private individuals form and carry into execution a resolu tion prejudicial to the community ? The use of the Thames is free to all vessels which pay the light dues, and belongs to the nation, not to the coal factors. If the owners or the consigners of the 25,000 merchant vessels which an nually come up the Thames were to assume the right of unloading them only in the river, 100,000 barges would scarcely be sufficient to recive their cargoes, and carry them to the storehouses. Let us see, then, what is the effect of unloading coals in the river, and what injury it causes to til; navigation of the river. After a Collier has authority to unload, she can:only put out 50 tons of coals each day. There must, therefore, be on the average 150 vessels un loading, and 400 barges occupied in carrying their cargoes on shore. Six hundred boats probably arc required to carry the meters and whippers backwards and forwards, and the crew of the Colliers lying in the river continually go back wards and forwards. In.lependently of the number of colliers actually un loading, the number detained by the factors in the Thames between Limehouse and Bugsby's Hole, during the winter, was as follows :- 1837. Colliers detained. Days a the Month Oct. Nov. Dec. 1 191 137 168 2 176 143 161 3 150 138 147 4 140 131 180 5 148 150 172 6 109 176 170 7 97 185 160 8 78 180 163 9 66 166 143 10 80 158 135 11 149 140 130 12 154 180 168 13 120 191 186 14 130 204 193 15 137 225 198 16 140 195 205 Average , 1837. Colliers detained. Days of the Oct. Nov. Dec. Month. 17 128 170 200 18 143 175 198 19 135 178 203 20 130 1 . 72 191 21 128 159 188 22 118 142 180 23 80 128 165 24 62 141 175 25 100 147 188 26 110 150 182 27 121 163 207 28 115 142 223 29 150 148 196 30 155 174 206 31 110 218 ... 125 In a very long winter the measures adopted by the Factors _ must cause gr-mt injury to London ; for the accumulation of ice, preventing the barges from moving, the vessels cannot discharge their cargoes, the manu- facturers must stop their ivork, and the population must be exposed to cruel deprivations. F ro m the returns of the coal market it appears in fact that only the following very small number of colliers were unloaded on seven market-days. To apply for on Market Days. Sold. Sold for the condition at Sale Country. when in a' Jan. 24, 1838 Working Berth. 1 2 24 26 1 1 27 29 1 0 26 31 1 0 31 Feb. 2 1 0 38 5 . 3 1 37 7 0 0 34 8 4 217 In fourteen days these 217 vessels must have expended a sum of 10,623/., or 3s. 3d. per ton on their cargoes. Only twelve Colliers while they were lying idle, were unloaded, of which eight were to supply London, and four to supply the country. During this period several Colliers suffered considerable damage, and the crews being cut off from communication 'with the shore suffered some severe privations. How came, then, the coal-owners and the ship-owners to give their consent to regulations imposed on their trade by the factors ? We showed in our former article, that a vessel of 220 registered tons, carrying 350 tons, costs for a voyage of 33 days, 20 of which she lies idle, the sum of 115/. ; butchers, bakers, brewers, ballast, pilotage, &c., 49/. ; wages of the crew, 35/. ; commission, &c., 6/. ; deterioration of the vessel, insurance, &c., 251.—total, 115/. For her cargo, at an average of eight shillings a ton, she nets 1401. ; profit, 25/. The inquiries by. the Committees of the House °f Commons have, however, established the fact unanswer ably that the Colliers remain four, five, and six weeks for their turn to unload, st an average expense of 3/. 10s. per day. If the expense of a vessel making a voyage in thirty. three days, twenty of which she remains idle, be 1151., Low much will a vessel expend each voyage if she remain four, five, or six weeks, waiting her turn to unload ? Four weeks inactive, the expense is £157, or 9s. per ton. Five Six Voyage of fifteen days But if the shipowner receive only 140/. for the freight of 350 tons, how can he carry on a trade in which he expends, 180/. per voyage ? The answer to this question will demonstrate that the factors, contrary to the law, have formed in co njunction with the factors of Newcastle—a conspiracy to make the coal-owners pay the difference. The registered tonnage is The vessel carries 340 Difference l3O The ship-owner selling his cargo at 105. the ton, receive s for the 130 tons 65/., equivalent to the time which he loses in the river. The shipowner receives for freight 1401., and he receives for the price of 130 tons, for which he has not paid 6 51, netting 2051. each voyage, while his expence is 1801. le consequence he makes a profit of 25/., notwithstanding the four or five weeks his vessel remains idle. The coalowners therefore are obliged to sell their coals at 25 per cent. more than they would require, if they were paid for the coals which are n ow t a k en f rom t h em by the false method of estimating th e t onnage o f s hi ps. I n that case they might sell coals f or w hi c h t h ey now rece i v e 9s• per ton at 6s. per ton. The ship-owners n o t o bli ge d to awa i t t h e p l easure o f the factors, might perfor m th e voyage as f o ll ows : —F our days to xo to the mine, one d a y t o l oa d, f our to return , an d two Ape Toad in the do c k, ma ki ng a tota l o f e l even d ays . TheY therefore, e as il y ma k e two voyages per mo nth, 'and the vessels being b u ilt on correct pr i nc i p l es , i ns t ea d of being constructed t o p ro fit by a f rau d u l ent measu re of capacity, would make their voyage with greater celerity. Thlf' crews might then be better paid; the river would 11 °4 longer be encumbered ; the coal-owners would receive the price for the coals, and coals of the first quality would he delivered in London, as we have stated, at the price of from 18s. to 20s. per ton. The West India, East India, and London Dacks, have for 20 years been of great utility to commerce, and have enabled the Government to collect a considerable revenue with ease and regularity. The Collier Dock at Roarer hithe, situated at the entrance of the Surrey Canal, and not far from the Regent's Canal, will enable the Government—and perhaps it alone can answer the purpose—to free one of the more important branches of in dustry from the devastating effect of the monopoly and control of the factors. By their mischievous operation they prevent the increasing consumption of the article, and dimi nish the comforts of the people. They levy moreover an exorbitant sum on the coal-owners, on the ship-owners, and on the inhabitants of the metropolis. TAUNTON. The Committee met at Eleven o'Clock, when Mr. Berta objected to the votes of Samuel Shannon and Samuel M` Milian, on the ground of removal. In these two cases, which were taken separately, the removal was proved by an Excise officer, under whose survey the voters were in. cluded.—The votes were struck off, as was also that of Aaron Wyatt, whereby the petitioner was placed in a majority of one. (LEFT SITTINti.) YOUGHM,. The Committee met this•morning at eleven o'clock, when Mr. Har rison for the sitting Member said it would not be necessary for him to occupy the time of the Committee with any statement of his client's case. The course which he had now to take was to go on with objec 7 tions to the petitioner's poll until he reduced the number of votes by two, which would place the sitting member in a majority of one. It would then be fur the petitioner's council to assail Mr. Howard's votes, and restore the petitioner to his present majority if they could. Mr. 'llattaisoN then applied that the vote of John Bro Vb.. Main street, should be struck off the petitioners' poll, en the j removal. After a long examination of witnesses, and much discussion L technical points, the vote was struck off, whereby the parties were al upon a level. BELFAST. On the sitting of the Committee this morning, Mr. PouocK applied to know their decision respecting the expenses of Mr. Wallace, solici tor to Lord Belfast, who was detained in London by the Speaker's war. rant, at the instance of the petitioners. The Chailman replied, that the question was not at pre.,ent within the jurisdiction of the Committee. The scrutiny was then proceeded with. (Left sitting.) TO THE ELECTORS OF MARYLX- BONE. Electors I electors ! come forth to the fight, To battle for freedom, for justice and right ; Let Liberty's banner be spread to the wind, On which are emblazoned the rights of mankind. Words of fire, which make hated despots to cower, As they point to the advent that strips them of power, And despite chains and dungeons, the rack and the sword, Proclaim that those rights must again be restored. Electors l electors I the Tories are out, Their cry is division, and loudly they shout, — What by fear or by numbers they know would be vain, By traitors and fraud they now seek to obtain. 111-fated the day when Reformers are found To each other opposed, while the foe on the ground, With fiendish delight views a struggle which must Soon prostrate the cause of Reform in the dust. Electors ! electors I remember the day When a Sidmouth bore rule with a vile Castlereagh, When the hireling was sent to slay in cold blood, - And Peterloo's field with Reformers was strewed Then a Hobhouse in Newgate—Burdett in the Tower_ Displayed how the Tories can act when i n p ower . With the " Six Acts" in force, we scarce dare complain, And each Tory pants for such dread days again. Electors I electors I who would not fain see Each voter come forth uncorrupted and free, Without bribe or threat, unfettered his voice, To support at the hustings the man of his choice. Then who will refuse for Ewart to poll, W h en th e Ballot appears shining bright on his scroll, Which ere long will strengthen the popular sway, And scatter the Tories in fear and dismay. Electors I electors I will any dispute That the Septennial Act is of evils the root? And that Triennial Parliament s wou ld not soon cure, With Extension of wrongs Suffrage, the we endure ? Will any admit this, and yet not be found R ecor di n g his vote, while loud cheers resound For Reform and Ewart, with the brave men who won The battle of freedom in Marylebone ? —Morning Advertiser. CHEAP EDITION OF CAPT. MARRYAT'S POPU LAR NOVELS.—PRICE SIX. SHILLINGS EACH ENTIRE WORK.— The third volume of this series, now in course of publication monthly, contains Captain Nlarryat's " Japhet in search of a Father." Now that " Japhet" comes with the additional re commendation of its pre - sent attractive and portable form, with all the aids and appliances of elegant type, fine paper, supe rior engravings, and cheap ness o f pr i ce i n t o the bargain, it cannot faiL , to be universally acceptable. The two volumes previously issued of this series comprise respectively those capital stories "Jacob Faithful," and " Peter Simple." " Midshipman Easy," " The King's Own," &c., arc to fullow. Winchester Assizes, with which the Western Cir cuit commences to-morrow, are likely to be long and heavy. On the criminal side there are upwards of 80 prisoners for trial ; and on the civil side, 16 causes, five of which arc for special juries. No less three being libel cases, which excite much interest, COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Royal dinner party last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester (attended by LadY Georgiana Bathurst), Earl of Courtoun, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl of Errol, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Sir John Hobhouse, Sir Henry Wheatley, and Col. and Mrs. Anson. The band of the Royal Regiment of horse Guards attended at the Palace during the evening. The Lord Steward, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Berkeley Paget, and Sir Frederick Stovin joined the Royal circle a dinner on Tuesday evening. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. Sir Charles and Lady Des Voeux, in Harley-street, from Brighton ; Mrs. Canna; in Mansfield -street, from Hastings Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ilalford, in Charles -street, Berkeley square ; Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, in Park-crescent, from Wales; Mr. Joseph Smyth Wyndham, in Piccadilly, from Windsor; Mr. Charles Cavendish and Lord Frederick Gordon, a t Burlington House, from Latimers; the Hon. Augustus Villiers in Berkeley -square ; Mr. Wilmot in 13elgrave square ; Mr. Campbell, in Dover. street, from Edinburgh Mr. and Mrs. Dawson in Portland-place; Mr. 13ulkeley Piccatilly ; Mr. Edward O'Neill in Clarges-street ; the Ea" of Stradbroke, at the Brunswick Hotel, from Henham Hall ; Colonel Ralph Howard, M. P., and Lady Fraser, at ditto, from Ireland ' • Mr. and Mrs. Lasc e ll es a t ditto ; Captain Ponsonby, at Beattie's Hotel, from Dublin ; Count Bathyarri and family, at ditto, from Brighton ; H. Dimsdale, Esq., and Mrs. Dinrsdale, at ditto, from their seat in Hertfordshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shuttleworth and family, at the Trafalgar- Hotel, from Leicestershire ; Wadham Wyndham, Esq., at Mason's Hotel (late Svmmon's) from Salisbury. DEPARTURES. . Lord and Lady Molyneux, from Mason's Hotel, for their seat near Liverpool ; Admiral Sir J. P. Beresford, Bart., from the Brunswick lintel ; Henry Cary, Esq., from the Burlington Hotel, for Tor Abbey, Devonshire • Captain Parker, R.N., from the Green Park Hotel, for Bath. In consequence of the violent storm which prevailed on Friday night, and all day on Saturday, the railroad at Oa Rock was completely Llocked up. A wreck was driven 410 a the South Bull, completely deserted, and supposed to be Dutch gailiot.—Dublin Freeman. I i